Edible Gardening

Then I guess that I shouldnt mention that celery soup tastes better with some fennel in it?

Reminds me of the story I was once told by a young woman who'd tried them and liked them but accidentally shouted across the room at a dinner party, 'Has anyone else here had syphillis?'

Yes CO2 absorption will lower the pH after a few days and hardwater will be less affected by this.

I did this, but didn't come up with much unfortunately. One company wanting to charge me £85 for a 1 ton bag.

The nearest Wilko to me is 21.15 miles away via city bypass then motorway. I don't drive... But I see they do online shopping So, that's seed potatoes added to my shopping list too now

I am fortunate to have 2 US clients who regularly travel back and forth across the pond so obtaining seed is not a problem for me but I rarely ask such favours.

Go to the local chip shop and ask for some old potatoes sacks. That's what I use to keep mine, still eating what I harvested in September kept in a cold garageChip shops are glad to get rid of them as wellDave

April 2015 i became the proud owner of 4 twigs. I potted these twigs - 3 apple and 1 pear. Later that year they produced a couple of branches and a few leaves. The following year (last year) i got a bit of fruit off two apple. The other apple did produce a few very small bits of fruit, but tiny...

Thanks both for your comments, I will try to find the older stuff at the horse stables, good job you said that Jack, great tip saved me a lot of weeding.Thanks Zigs as always great adviceCheers

Now there's an idea !!

Also, peppers branch a lot and keep dividing into two as they grow, kind of in a "Y" shape. I grow my peppers in a polytunnel and at first I used to just get many small fruits and I thought I could not grow them.Now I prune, when the stem divides into 2, I prune one out and I continue to do...

Shop bought barely have any taste! My guess would be they're harvested early before they have time to develop fully

@TheMadHedger are you growing the broad beans for an allotment or for a garden? because you can sow Aquadulce Claudia now straight into the ground and they will give you an early crop of beans,earlier than spring sown varieties and with luck you won't have the black fly problems that are...

You would not have liked it anyway Zigs, You have to hold your pint mug of tea with your little finger sticking out, and the Sarnies do not have any crusts

Thanks for all the useful advice. My 2 chilli plants are now minus their good crop of Chillis which I've frozen and had a good spray with water to remove the majority of the whitefly. I'm going to prune them today and useful to see that you can be quite severe.

..or maybe a bit of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers...Steve...

Here's some infoGarden cress - Wikipedia

crimson crush and sun gold have been mentioned by a friend I made on FB he's sent me a few types of seed but I'm not sure what though, turning up tomorrow will let you know what I get

With the ones I have, (Senga) it depends. Normally, I wont do anything at all apart from remove the runners in Spring. Every third year, I'll collect the runners, remove the old plants, then put the runners in their place.I never use any kind of fertiliser, ever.On the odd occasion I have...